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In brief, we need a wide forward who can score a few goals and a striker to replace Dinanga in the squad. Surely he's heading out on loan?

PS. How good are the Academy prospects?
Expecting them to be given a run out in the early friendlies then maybe NPL to get some adult games experience before being reviewed. Maybe one could be that wide player? (Duncan 2.0?🤞)

It's asking a lot of one of the Academy lads to become a first team regular this season, although you never know. I am expecting them to have a combination of loans, as you say, with the odd substitute appearance.

I think we all agree in which area we are short. Of the current squad, Kosylo can play out wide with Ben Pringle playing as number 10, but that's making the best of things and I am sure the aim must be to get a new wide player in.

Talking of wide players, I am always a bit worried that somebody could come in for Ryan Colclough with an offer that neither the player nor the club could refuse.

My memory might be iffy (age...senility) but late 90s or early 00s we lost at home to Mossley in the FA Cup with an abysmally insipid performance - the only time I ever left Moss Lane before the final whistle

Your memory is very good, although it might be kinder if it had let you forget this. We lost 0-3 at home to Mossley in the 2nd Round Qualifying in 2000. We signed Danny Murphy  from Mossley as  a result  of this, even before they  played in the next round, if  my own memory is right.

I see a suggestion has been out forward to trial kick ins, instead of a throw.

I am 100% that 20/25 years ago the northern premier league trialled this in a league cup competition.

Can anybody confirm that please? There's no better place to go for this kind of info.

Thanks everyone.

I can remember a league doing that, but I am not sure which one it was; the Isthmian League comes to mind, but memory and a Google search both fail me.

PSF away at Alton Royale in the early 90s. Never heard of them before or after, and no idea why we played them. It was somewhere around Birmingham I recall.

I was going to mention that one. The club were actually called Olton Royale, and they were one of the leading Sunday clubs around Birmingham. The link was that their manager lived next door to Jeff Wealands when the latter played for Birmingham City. They kept in touch when he moved north, and Olton challenged to us a game.  I am pretty sure we won, but can't remember the score (possibly 4-1?).

Although Olton is in Solihull, the club played some distance away at Baytree Farm, in the countryside south of Birmingham at Hockley Heath where they shared with West Heath United. It was a proper ground with  a stand, but was as rural as its name indicates, and am sure I can remember a playing have to climb over a wall to rescue the ball from a farmyard after a wayward shot!

Olton Royale later switched to Saturday football, joining the Midland Combination, where they reached as high as the Premier Division  (North West Counties Div 2 equivalent at the time, I think) before disappearing in 1996.

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It's on the Wrexham forum.

PS. They've even got a Bangor on Dee Dragon! (although I'm sure he's not as good a guy as our own Bangor on Dee Robin!) 😉

My drinking buddy, hence all the Alty stuff.

Also my grandmother's home village, keeping this all in the family.

As for Dibble, I go with One Foot in the Grave. We could do better, but could also do worse.  He is well acquainted with the National League, at least.

Quote from: Saughall Robin on May 25, 2022, 02:41:20 PM

Ryan Forde is the lad we signed up from the academy right? Wonder if he's pencilled in for the future? Didn't our reserve keeper go to a league club not so long back?

The youth keeper went to Salford. Not heard anything about his progress since then.

That's Joel Torrance. He has  appeared on the bench for the first team at Salford City several times, without actually making an appearance, but he has turned out for Colne on loan, just as Ryan Forde has done, by coincidence.

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Dorking up too. Not quite the same appeal as York but congratulations to them as well. A new ground to visit, Meadowbank.

A popular win given that nobody seems to like Ebbsfleet.

Part-time too, will be interesting to see what they do.

They might start singing “part time and we’re proud of it” to us and “Do you practice that all week?” 😂😂😂

We could still sing "We've been once, twice, three times to Wembley, and you've won the Surrey cup"!

You may have to work on the lyrics, Hugh, as it doesn't scan very well.

However, you have hit on something as their owner-chairman, Marc White,is also their manager, so there are certain similarities to Droylsden, although I think Marc White (who says he has other backers putting money into the club) may have more charm and money than Dave Pace.